Numbers from the unnamed ISP showed that, during the court case against Pirate Bay, traffic to the site increased - in line with media coverage at the time. Once the ban was enforced, P2P activity fell 11% before levels returned to just below normal a week later.

A spokesperson said: "Volumes are already pretty much back to where they were before."

The ISP stressed that these figures are in relation to volume of P2P traffic, not necessarily the number of ...

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